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Obama‘s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council makes a slap at Arizona‘s illegal trespasser law. Even though the Attorney General could not make a legal case that it violated any human rights, Obama tells the UN that Arizona’s law is a cause for international concern.

The idea that Obama would shine an international spotlight on one of the 50 United States is offensive and obscene. Throughout the report Obama pats himself on the back for trying to deliver America from its Constitutional evils.

After this report is read by the UN Human Rights Council, the French, Japanese, and Cameroon diplomats will draw up a plan of action for the United States to implement.

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“Resident Evil 5″ is the latest in a series of video games, and an upcoming movie, about diseased undead zombies roaming the planet and eating people. This media franchise debuted in 1996, but now that this franchise has earned untold millions of dollars, the Moochers and Crybabies are starting to claim that the game is racist, has problems with cultural sensitivity, and has “imagery used to perpetuate stereotypes and ignorance about black people.”

Huh?

The object of the game is to kill the zombies before they eat your brains, zombies of any color and nationality. If you shoot a black zombie in a video game you’re now branded as a racist, but killing white zombies is OK? Is killing an Asian zombie only acceptable if the player doing so is not white?

WTF is happening with people? How are mothers giving birth to so many brain-dead panty-wearing wimps as children? I’m actually looking forward to a real Zombie Apocalypse as all the Crybabies will be the first ones to perish.

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Today the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations” will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.”

The “General Strategic Goal for North America” of the Muslim Brotherhood states: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan ["Brotherhood"] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Your tax dollars hard at work.

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Since all you filthy rich have more money than should be allowed, the Associated Press reminds us:

This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents.

That includes $76,000 for a 16th century mosque in China, $67,000 for a mosque in Pakistan, $77,000 to restore minarets in Nigeria and Mauritania, and $50,000 for an Islamic Monument in India.

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Via USA Today:

Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. “If you come home to find your house burglarized and you call, we’re not coming,” said Oakland Police spokeswoman Holly Joshi. Wow, the news coming from our government just keeps getting better and better.

Just damn.

Sort of like EMS not coming to your house until BOTH your lungs and heart stop. Or the fire department not coming until both your kitchen AND living room are on fire.

The government will use this crisis to force us into higher taxes. What happened to the $800 billion Obama took from us in 2009, where did all that money go?

This should be a lesson to all that none of us can depend on the government for hardly anything, therefore quit looking to them for answers and become self-reliant ourselves.

Oh, and to those that might assume the cops in my town won’t respond if you attempt burglary and theft on my house, I have several firearms in various calibers always loaded and ready. I’ll call 911 after I empty the magazine.

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Says American Thinker:

So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.

* Obama‘s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.
* Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
* Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
* Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
* Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.
* The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).
* During Bush’s Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)

The war cost us under $100 billion a year for eight years, which is small in comparison to Federal spending. So even if you detested the war, one of those that say “Bush’s illegal war”, Obama’s federal spending has done much more harm to the US than the war in Iraq.

The Left really doesn’t care about spending, they only scream about who it’s being spent on. But don’t get me wrong, as the Republicans are just as evil and nefarious as the Democrats. I yearn for the day when we have a real, viable Third Party in US politics.

Until then I will continue to cling to my Guns and my Religion.

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I will support just about any candidate that supports the FairTax … that’s how much I believe in this.

The current maze of taxes keep free people in slavery. You may think the current progressive income tax is a heavy burden on you and your family, but do you have any concept of the dozens of hidden taxes that you pay daily in addition to what is removed from your paycheck?

Did you know that you pay import taxes on the following, costs that are rolled into the final price you pay:
- Bicycles – 11%
- Cotton hammocks – 15%
- Certain infant formulas – 18%
- Table linens – 12%
- Flashlights – 18%
- Peanut butter – 143%
- Girdles – 24%
- Sport-fishing equipment – 10%
- Telephones – 8%
- Brooms – 32%
- Plastic school supplies – 5%
- Gasoline – 10-20%
- Hotels and rental cars – up to 40%

Forget all the political rhetoric about “taxing the rich”. Are you beginning to see how much of the money the government swallows everyday is being paid by the middle class? At the end of the day you have no idea how much money is coming out of your wallet and falling squarely into the government’s lap – just the way they like it, because we cannot complain about something we’re not aware of.

Until, and unless, the tax code is grossly simplified and applied equally to everyone, this overburdening of the middle class will continue unabated. The FairTax is a great way to accomplish most of this reform.

The FairTax (HR 25 in the US House and S 296 in the US Senate) is a federal retail sales tax that replaces the entire federal income and Social Security tax systems, including personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security/Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes. The FairTax allows Americans to keep 100 percent of their paychecks (minus any state income taxes), ends corporate taxes and compliance costs hidden in the retail cost of goods and services, and fully funds the federal government while fulfilling the promise of Social Security and Medicare.

- ALL federal income taxes and federal payroll taxes will be replaced with The FairTax, also called a consumption tax or a national retail sales tax.
- You decide how much you pay in taxes when you spend, not the government.
- Brackets of taxation are eliminated. There is just one rate for everyone.
- Job creation in the USA would take off, because embedded taxes and taxes on corporate profits would be eliminated.
- Visibility of the federal taxes we pay would be crystal clear.
- Groceries and basic necessities are not taxed.
- Capital gains taxes are eliminated. More investment means more jobs.

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I bow before those with more knowledge on cell phones, as I am a not.

Are any of y’all “cell phone geniuses”? I have AT&T. I’m eligible to upgrade phone now but can’t spend big $$$ (I’ve always bought re-furbs). My complete contract expires in December. My current phone’s keyboard is acting up, and I want another smartphone, but not iPhone, and prefer Android OS. Do I wait for my contract to expire and go to T-Moblie? Get the cheap Moto Blackflip? Wife likes Samsung Solstice, I like Samsung Captivate.

I understand that AT&T is nerfing half of Android’s goodies at the factory before you even get the phone. What if I find a phone somewhere else and just “attach” it to AT&T’s network (legally, of course).

If you root an Android do you get the goodies back?

I’ve had a phone for 10 years, and they’re still alchemy to me (although I DID remove AT&T’s restrictions on my current Samsung Blackjack II, runs fine, does what it’s supposed to do).

All of those “buy cheap phones here” sites online always force you to get a contract for something I don’t want (4,000,000 minutes for 5 years).

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The Contract From America:

1. Identify constitutionality of every new law: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does.

2. Reject emissions trading: Stop the “cap and trade” administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.

3. Demand a balanced federal budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax modification.

4. Simplify the tax system: Adopt a single-rate tax system; eliminate the internal revenue code and replace it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words.

5. Audit federal government agencies for constitutionality: Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in an audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities.

6. Limit annual growth in federal spending: Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth.

7. Repeal the health care legislation passed on March 23, 2010: Defund, repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Policy: Authorize the exploration of additional energy reserves to reduce American dependence on foreign energy sources and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation.

9. Reduce Earmarks: Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark.

10. Reduce Taxes: Permanently repeal all recent tax increases, and extend permanently the George W. Bush temporary reductions in income tax, capital gains tax and estate taxes, currently scheduled to end in 2011.

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By Charlton Heston, found at A Torch With No Flame:

A well regulated Militia,
being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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From a damn fine article by Doctor Zero, one that you should read in its entirety:

The scale of the challenge facing us is formidable. Like all fearsome things, it is also exhilarating. In the blood and bile of this dying statist economy, we can see the desperate future of an indentured nation… a truth many of us have refused to see, when displayed in bankrupt socialism around the world. What is the destiny of a free nation?

It will be a future of responsibility. Irresponsibility leads to dependence, which makes demands. It is impossible for anyone to be truly free until they renounce the obligation of others to provide their sustenance. Until then, dependents and providers wear matching sets of chains, and great power resides in the State that decides how long those chains will be. When resources are taken from each according to their means, and given to each according to their needs, the moral authority of those who balance those needs against each other becomes absolute.

No wonder the constituencies of socialist America regard their political elite as saints, compared to the captains of industry. The system demands such faith from its subjects. If politicians are selfish and corrupt, and their bureaucrats are blinded by dogma, who would trust them to fairly and logically ration subsidies and benefits? Look around you, and learn beyond question that they are selfish and corrupt. There is no brilliant design behind “stimulus” spending, ObamaCare, the massive federal budget, or central industrial policy. They were born in the filth of insider deals and payoffs, ideology and greed.

The destiny of a free nation lies in overthrowing its aristocracy. We have no need of a privileged class that makes plans to increase trillion-dollar deficits in between rounds of golf and lavish Spanish vacations. It makes no sense to submit to commands from the same people who deliver endless loads of “unexpected” bad news about the economy. We must decisively reject the feckless greed of a Party that demands billions more in revenue to fund a budget they haven’t even written. Over two hundred years after our Founders wrote about the transcendent nature of freedom, we are still struggling with the enormous idea that it must be applied universally.

Reaching our destiny will require courage. We are the grandchildren of revolutionaries, both natural-born and adopted through immigration. Together we are a family of builders, investors, explorers, and warriors. The American posture is not a frightened crouch. To discover what we are capable of, we must reject the vision of a hopeless future, where timid clients line up at government offices to receive benefits they cannot be trusted to create or purchase themselves.

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Via the UK Telegraph:

1. The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people

2. Most Americans don’t have confidence in the president’s leadership

3. Obama fails to inspire

4. The United States is drowning in debt

5. Obama’s Big Government message is falling flat

6. Obama’s support for socialised health care is a huge political mistake

7. Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill has been weak-kneed and indecisive

8. US foreign policy is an embarrassing mess under the Obama administration

9. President Obama is muddled and confused on national security

10. Obama doesn’t believe in American greatness

Summary: What’s really sad here is that, once again, you will read genuine criticism of Obama from the FOREIGN media as there is no media outlet in the US that will dare make the statement that The King Has No Clothes.

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The Primaries are finally settled, so it’s Roy Barnes versus Nathan Deal this November for Governor of Georgia.

I’m not a big fan of Deal, but I have absolutely no love for Barnes. So to keep Barnes out of office I have to vote for Deal.

Lesser of two evils. Hopefully Deal will show me something that will create more support from me.

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Via UK Telegraph:

The First Lady’s ill-conceived trip to Marbella and the complete disregard for public opinion and concerns over excessive government spending is symbolic of a far wider problem with the Obama presidency – the overarching disdain for the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free enterprise that have built the United States over the course of nearly two and a half centuries into the most powerful and free nation on earth.

It is epitomised above all by the President’s relentless drive towards big government against the will of the American people, and the dramatic increases in government spending and borrowing, which threaten to leave the US hugely in debt for generations. It is also showcased by Barack Obama’s drive towards a socialised health care system, which, as I’ve noted before, is “a thinly disguised vanity project for a president who is committed to transforming the United States from the world’s most successful large-scale free enterprise economy, to a highly interventionist society with a massive role for centralized government.”

There is however a political revolution fast approaching Washington that is driven not by mob rule but by the power of ideas and principles, based upon the ideals of the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. It is a distinctly conservative revolution that is sweeping America and is reflected in almost every poll ahead of this November’s mid-terms. It is based on a belief in individual liberty, limited government, and above all, political accountability from the ruling elites. The Obama administration’s mantra may well be “let them eat cake”, as it continues to gorge itself on taxpayers’ money, but it will be looking nervously over its shoulder as public unease mounts.

It is sad that this had to come from the British media, as the US liberal media continue to remain silent about anything critical of “their” President.

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